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FARMERS BANK: TK160CR SCAM

ACC grills Chisty

Ministry suspends shipping dept chief engineer who was held for bribery on Thursday

Staff Correspondent
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated former chairman of Farmers Bank Audit Committee Mahabubul Haque Chisty, his son and two officials of the bank in connection with a Tk 160-crore laundering case filed last week.
On Wednesday, Mahabubul, his son Rashedul Haque Chisty, the bank's Senior Vice President Zia Uddin Ahmed and First Vice President Muhammad Masudur Rahman Khan were produced before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court that sent them to prison.
It placed Mahabubul on remand for five days and the others for four days.
Yesterday, an ACC team interrogated them for about four hours from noon at the commission's Segunbagicha headquarters, said an ACC official, seeking anonymity.
ACC filed the case with Gulshan Police Station, accusing six persons, including the four.
The other two are Mahabubul's wife Ruzi Chisty and ex-manager of the bank's Gulshan Corporate Branch Delwar Hossain.
In December last year, the central bank unearthed that Farmers Bank's Motijheel branch disbursed more than Tk 500 crore, sanctioned to 11 companies in violation of the banking norms and procedures.
Of the amount, loans ofTk 367 crore that the branch gave to 10 of the firms from November 2013 to November last year have become defaulted. Some of the firms are either obscure or little-known.
According to a BB probe report, Mahabubul was involved in the financial scams that took place in the bank's Gulshan and Mowna branches.
The central bank has held the private bank's ex-chairman Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir and Mahabubul largely responsible for the scams.
The ACC found that between November 18, 2013 and January 30 this year, Tk 138.82 crore was deposited with the current accounts of Bakshiganj lute Spinners Ltd, owned by Mahabubul's son, wife and daughter, at Farmers Bank's Bakshiganj and Gulshan branches.
Later, the entire amount was withdrawn in cash.
Though the transactions were suspicious, Zia and Delwar who were managers of Bakhsiganj and Gulshan branches at that time, did not inform Bangladesh Bank about it, and thus abetted the laundering of the money, reads the case statement.
Besides, at least seven suspicious transactions of more than Ik 13 crore were made involving bank accounts of Mahabubul and his son, according to theACC.
Meanwhile, SM Nazmul Huq, chief engineer and surveyor of the Department of Shipping, caught red-handed while taking bribe on Thursday in Segunbagicha, was suspended by the shippingministry.
The ministry issued a circular yesterday in this regard.
“The circular regarding the suspension has been issued following Nazmul's arrest by the Anti-Corruption Commission on April 12,” Jahangir Alam Khan, senior information officer of the ministry, toldThe Daily Star.
Notably, Nazmul was appointed in place of AKM Fakhrul Islam last year, who was also sacked after being caught red-handed while taking bribe.